PhMuseum 2023
Photography Grant
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• Jason Fulford

  

  Photographer and co-founder of J&L Books

  Bio

  Jason Fulford is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the globe. Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors. As an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been on the subject of how meaning is generated through association.

  His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), Contains: 3 Books (2016), Clayton's Ascent (2018), The Medium is a Mess (2018) and Picture Summer on Kodak Film (2020). He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children, This Equals That (2014), co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014), guest editor of Der Greif Issue 11, and editor of Photo No-Nos (2021).

• Federica Chiocchetti

  

  Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle (MBAL)

  Bio

  Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle (MBAL) in Switzerland, she is a writer, curator, editor and lecturer specialising in photography and literature. Her next exhibition at MBAL is entitled The Pleasure of the Text and will open at the end of March 2023. Through her platform Photocaptionist she collaborates with international institutions such as Jeu de Paume, Aperture and Foam. She holds a PhD in ‘Photo-Texts: Critical Intersections in History’, from London’s University of Westminster, which she has transformed into the educational project Word and Image Workshop (WIW) and a touring exhibition entitled The Pleasure of the Text, which will open at the end of March 2023 at MBAL.

  Previous curatorial projects include ‘Looking On: New Italian Photography’ at the Ravenna Art Museum (2019), the late Lorenzo Tricoli’s retrospective show ‘The Archive You Deserve’, for Fotografia Europea (2018), the festival Jaipur Photo on ‘Wanderlust’ in India (2017) and the exhibitions ‘Invisible Stratum’ for Tokyo International Photography Festival (2017).

  She has won a number of residencies (Fondation Michalski, Cité internationale des arts), awards (Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book, Vienna Photo Book Dummy) and in 2016 she was included among the ‘16 female curators shaking things up’ by Artnet after her shows ‘Feminine Masculine’ at the London Art Fair (2016), ‘Peter Henry Emerson: Presented by the Author’, while she was Art Fund Curatorial Fellow of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2015) and ‘Amore e Piombo: The Photography of Extremes in 1970s Italy’ at the Brighton Photo Biennial/Photoworks (2014).

  Through her alter ego Candida Desideri, a subversive homage to her mother, she writes more experimental stuff such as short stories and prose poems, which have been published within the book ‘Nachbilder: Eine Foto Text Anthologie’ by Spector Books, Zurich University of the Arts and Fotomuseum Winterthur (2020) and Der Greif (2015).

• Vasantha Yogananthan

  

  Photographer and Co-Founder of Chose Commune

  Bio

  Born in 1985 in France, Vasantha Yogananthan has produced personal projects which have been published, exhibited and awarded internationally. Piémanson was Yogananthan’s first book, a form that has been central to his work since he began and which led him to co-found the publishing house Chose Commune with Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi in 2014. Drawing inspiration from the imagery associated with The Ramayana and its pervasiveness in everyday Indian life, his 7-book project A Myth of Two Souls combines a wide range of techniques, including colour photography, hand-painted photography and collages. Yogananthan has received several awards, including an ICP Infinity Award as Emerging Photographer of the Year (2017) and the Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award (2019). In 2021, he was awarded a Juror's Special Mention at the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Award for Amma, the seventh and last book of his series A Myth of Two Souls. Yogananthan has been working on a new project in the USA in 2022, funded by the Immersion program by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès. This new body of work will be exhibited at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (Paris) and the International Center of Photography (New York) in 2023. Yogananthan is represented by The Photographers’ Gallery Print Sales (London), Jhaveri Contemporary (Mumbai) and Assembly (Houston). His works are included in private and public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Musée de l’Élysée (Lausanne) and the FOAM Museum (Amsterdam). His books are part of the permanent collection of the MoMA library (New York).

• Max Siedentopf

  

  Multi-disciplinary conceptual artist

  Bio

  Max Siedentopf (1991) is a London based multi-disciplinary conceptual artist working across video, photography, sculpture, creative direction and everything in-between and is the founder of the art publication ORDINARY.

  From 2013 - 2020 Max Siedentopf has been creative director of the 'legendary and unorthodox' creative agency KesselsKramer, which was founded in 1996 by the dutch artist Erik Kessels, and is the only one that has worked at all three offices and becoming the youngest partner at the age of 25.

  Since 2019-ongoing, Siedentopf has been a key creative collaborator of the Italian fashion house Gucci, developing campaigns, the overall brand image and launching special projects such as Gucci's experimental platform Gucci Vault where he was responsible for the naming and overall creative art direction from digital, campaigns to retail spaces.

  Max has been described by Vogue Italy as viral artist and his installation Toto Forever was included in artnet’s '10 Extraordinary Artworks You Need to Travel to the Edge of the World to See' next to ‘Prada Marfa’ by Elmgreen & Dragset’s, ‘Yellow Pumpkin’ by Yayoi Kusama’s and ‘Notre Dame du Haut’ by Le Corbusier’s.

  In June 2019, Siedentopf starred in the music video for 'Mine Right Now', a song by Norwegian singer Sigrid Max was supposed to direct. This was due to Sigrid’s flight being cancelled, the singer therefore being unable to appear in the video herself and Max ended up starring in instead.

  Next to this he is the founder of Ordinary Magazine which was nominated for Magazine Of The Year, Best Art Direction and Best use of Photography by the Stack Awards. For his Gommi 'Psychosis' music video he was awarded the 'Most Bizarre Video' at the Berlin Music Video Awards and was also nominated Best New Director at the UKMVAs. In 2021 Siedentopf won the Impression Award for best digital fashion campaign for his GUCCI ‘#ACCIDENTALINFLUENCER’ SPRING 2020 campaign.